December 31, 1910 



HORTICULTURE 



935 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED. 



George E. Dickinson, of 1 Broadway, 

 New Yorli, has again made his friends 

 and customers happy with a beautiful 

 calendar entitled "Nature's Gifts," 

 comprising a series of fruit studies 

 from paintings by C. Klein, a most 

 artistic production. 



Bulletin No. 1 of the American Glad- 

 iolus' Society has come to hand and 

 secretary Gage is to be congratulated 

 on the attractive little pamphlet which 

 is the first publication issued by this 

 • young organization and which, we. 

 trust, is to be followed liy many such 

 from time to time. 



Canadian Seed Growers' Association 

 — Report of the Sixth Annual Meeting, 

 held at Ottawa, Feb. 10 and 11, 1910. 

 This volume contains the minutes of 

 the proceedings interspersed with 

 many fine half tone illustrations of 

 seed crops and cultural processes, and 

 the papers and addresses presented, in 

 full. The book is a valuable addition 

 to the literature of "good seeds." 



Bulletin of the New York Botanical 

 Garden, Vol. 6, No. 22, issued Novem- 

 ber 30, 1910, presents the reports of 

 the officials in charge of the garden 

 and its various departments, an arti- 

 cle on New Species from Bolivia, col- 

 lected by R. S. Williams, Critical 

 Notes on New or Little Known Species 

 in the Herbarium, A Study of South- 

 ern California Trees and Shrubs and 

 a complete index to the full volume 

 comprising 528 pages. 



City of Boston; Department of Parks 

 —Thirty-fifth Annual Report of the 

 Board of Commissioners. This in- 

 cludes a comprehensive report by Su- 

 perintendent J. A. Pettigrew on the 

 various parks, boulevards and play- 

 grounds under his care. We note that 

 the Commissioners refer hopefully to 

 the possibility of adding to the park 

 attractions later on, by the aid of the 

 Parkman Fund, a garden with all the 

 summer flowers, annual and perennial, 

 with lines of hothouses for winter ex- 

 hibitions. 



The Woodsman's Handbook, revised 

 and enlarged, has just been issued by 

 the Forest Service Bureau of the U. 

 S. Department of Agriculture. Henry 

 S. Graves, Forester, and E. A. Zlegler, 

 Director of Pennsylvania State Forest 

 Academy, are the authors. The book 

 contains 20S pages of information on 

 each and every topic of interest to the 

 woodsman and lumberman, and, in 

 fact, anyone at all interested in for- 

 estry and tree growth, whether for 

 business or pleasure, will find this 

 publication full of valuable facts and 

 suggestions. There are sixteen figures 

 illustrative of the text. 



Bulletin No. 195, Bureau of Plant 

 Industry, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture 

 is a very interesting pamphlet of 56 

 pages, on "The Production of Volatile 

 Oils in Perfumery Plants in the 

 United States." The imports of vola- 

 tile and distilled oils for the years 

 1903 to 1908 inclusive amounted to 

 over three and one-half million dol- 

 lars. With the exception of pepper- 

 mint oil none of the various distilla- 

 tions approach industrial size in the 

 United States but the author of this 

 bulletin concludes that the outlook for 

 a very considerable extension of the 

 volatile-oil industry in this country, 

 in general, seems promising. Favor- 

 able conditions of soil and climate 

 seem to be obtainable. With an in- 



CYPRIPEDIUM X OLIVIA. 



The beautiful flower illustrated here 

 is one of the most highly prized of the 

 numerous cypripedium hybrids. It is 



a hybrid between the two well-known 

 species C. niveum and C. tonsum, com- 

 bining the exquisite points of each. 



creased practical knowledge of how to 

 handle the crops of greatest promise 

 and with a working familiarity with 

 the forms of apparatus used in sepa- 

 rating the oils, the preliminary steps 

 leading to such an extension will have 

 been taken. Before a full-fledged in- 

 dustry can be expected to appear, 

 however, much preliminary experi- 

 mental work must be done over a 

 wide area in order to ascertain the 

 most successful combinations of soil, 

 climate and labor conditions. 



From the standpoint of the con- 

 sumption of products, derived from 

 volatile oils obtained from plants, the 

 commercial statistics show a large and 

 active market. They also show that 

 the demand is now supplied in very 

 large part from foreign sources, and 

 an active interest in testing the possi- 

 bilities of our land is suggested. 



Missouri Botanical Garden, Twenty- 

 first Report, 1910.— This annual vol- 

 ume is, as usual, an interesting scien- 

 tific record, especially valuable to bot- 

 anists and students of plant life. Full 

 reports of the director and officers of 

 the board of trustees are followed by 

 scientific papers by Ada Hayden, C. H. 

 Danforth, E. G. Arzberger, Francis E. 

 Lloyd, David Griffiths, R. R. Gates and 

 Periey Spauldiug, illustrated by 38 

 beautifully finished plates. Dr. Trel- 

 ease's report states that during the 

 year S22 species or varieties were add- 

 ed to the list of plants cultivated, and 

 520 were lost or discarded, the total 

 number in the collection at the end 

 of the year being 11,764. About 2,500 

 Oenotheras grown from pedigree seed 

 added much to the attractiveness of the 



Garden in the early evening during the 

 summer, because of their profuse pro- 

 duction of large and fragrant flowers. 

 3,511 chrysanthemum plants, of 520 

 varieties, were shown under canvas 

 during the last two weeks of Novem- 

 ber. The total income receipts for the 

 year were $170,378.03, and disburse- 

 ments $167,418.39. 



NEW FRENCH CHRYSANTHE- 

 MUMS. 



At the Paris Autumn Show the floral 

 committee awarded no fewer than 66 

 certificates to new seedling chrysanthe- 

 mums and this number is quite inde- 

 pendent of those awarded by the 

 French Chrysanthemum Society at 

 Lyons. In our opinion, the French 

 novelties this year are below the aver- 

 age in quality and w^ shall be much 

 surprised if half a dozen of them ever 

 find their way into either English or 

 American cultivation. 



C. H. PAYNE. 



CHRYSANTHEMUM JOURNAL. 



The Paris Chrysanthemum Commit- 

 tee of the National Horticultural So- 

 ciety of France is as big a concern ae 

 many a Chrysanthemum Society. It 

 numisers not far short of 400 members, 

 many of whom are distinguished for- 

 eigners interested in the flower. A 

 journal issued once a year is distribu- 

 ted among the members. 



I did not receive my last issue of 



HORTICULTURE and miss it as 

 much as my dinner. 



Mass. F. L. W. 



